Aamir Khan Ghajini 2008 Hindi Movie Review

Cast & Crew:

Producer: Allu Arvind, Madhu Varma
Director: A.R. Murugadoss
Story & Screenplay A.R. Murugadoss
Cast: Aamir Khan, Asin, Jiah Khan, Pradeep Rawat, Khalid Siddiqui
Music Director: A R Rahman
Cinematography: Ravi K. Chandran
Choreography: Ahmed Khan
Editor: Anthony

The Story:

The story of Ghajini is about Sanjay Singhania (Aamir Khan) who suffers a short term memory loss and his daily routine is to watch photographs and look into the reminders to remind himself of the killing of his girlfriend. The story goes back in past and it is shown that Sanjay is a rich businessman owner of a cellular phone company named Air Voice . Once Sanjay gets attracted towards a young, vivacious fashion model Kalpana, (Asin) when he finds her helping people cross roads and falls in love with her. Kalpana has no clue that her boyfriend is one of the richest businessmen who owns one a leading cellular company. Kalpana who never saw him as the richest businessman, boasts of being Sanjay’s girlfriend in an interview in a local newspaper called Mayapuri.

Sooner, they fall in love and then the film goes to show the beautiful romantic relationship between the two. Then one day Kalpana saves a group of girls from eve teasers and she gets killed by the gang of criminals who were forcing girls into the flesh trade. Sanjay makes a futile attempt to save her from criminals and gets hit badly on head by an iron rod.

To avenge the death of his lover, Sanjay sets out on a mission to avenge her death. Sanjay is blank on memory and he enters a phase of life when everything comes to his mind for 15 minutes and then he forgets everything. He takes photographs, tattoos names and numbers on his body, and keeps notes and reminders to overcome his memory loss problem. Initially the medical practitioner Jiah Khan helps the villain to meet Sanjay but later when she reads in diary about Sanjay and she helps him to kill the villain “Ghajini.” The movie ends when Sanjay finds and kills the villain and takes revenge of his sweet-hearts death.

The Performances:

Aamir’s performance is brilliant in all fields be it romance or action. Asin too shows potential but is far too animated. Jiah Khan's acting shows immaturity and is strictly OK. The cinematography is commendable, the dialogues are in sync sound which is a huge advantage and the action sequences are top notch.

Asin Thottumkal is new to Bollywood and performance wise she is fine and she appears less sweet but a confident girl. Jiah is ok in her role.

The Music:
The music of Ghajini is scored by A.R Rehman's. Music of the film is average although romantic number “Guzarish” attracts and choreography of songs is good. Besides the song Guzarish, all the songs lack the melody and trademark of the maestro.

Conclusion:

At three-and-half-hours, the movie is extremely long and could have been edited better. Though it lacks pace, not too many can complain about the film being boring. Script is catchy but the suspense could have been extended. Director takes up a new script to show. The film is not a romantic feel good kind of movie but those who were bored to see too much love and goodness in “Rab Ne Bana Di Jodi” can go to watch Ghajini for a change. The film has much violence, actions that may not be enjoyed by kids and families but youngsters will like to see the power packed action scenes and changed look of Aamir.

Verdict:

‘Ghajini’ is a so called sure ‘Hit’ film, as it offers all that masala which has been prepared with that sure success formula.